AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
MILITARY TRAINING. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Melbourne, August 39. Over 87,000 boys are undergoing military training in the Commonwealth. The-exemptions numbered 55,910. Only 6522 exemptions were due to medical unfitness, the rest being due to the distance of the boys' homes from training centres. A STRIKE- SETTLED. Sydney, August 29. The Townsville wharf laborers' strike has been settled. After conferring with the company's manager the free laborers agreed to accept £lO each to leave, the Waterside Union agreeing to find £SO out of the £2OO required to pay them. The unionists resumed work at midnight. THE PRICE OF COAL. Newcastle, August 29. The Miners' Delegate Board has decided to ask the proprietors to increase the selling price of coal, beginning next year, from eleven to twelve shillings a ton, with a proportionate increase in the hewing rate. i
SETTLEMENTS FOR NATIVES. Brisbane, August 29. The Government is providing extensive settlements in the north for the care of aborigines.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 2
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159AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 58, 30 August 1911, Page 2
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